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Dear Community,

I am a new user, so please bear my question even if it sounds stupid.

I have windows environment in my organization. I am thinking to move from prtg network Monitoring to Nagios.
But to install opne source I need a linux machine.I can do that on a linux vm. But the point is that, does all machines being monitored have to be of Linux OS in this case or they can be of Winodws OS as well?

Hi @skanwal,

Welcome! And thank you for considering Nagio. By the way, if you're looking for an enterprise product, check out Nagios XI as well. There's a free trial available.

Anyhow, Nagios has to be installed on Linux, but you can monitor virtually anything, including Windows. I would highly recommend using an agent like NCPA to run checks on Window hosts, it's much easier than WMI or another protocol.

https://www.nagios.org/ncpa/

I hope that helps. Let me know if you have more questions.